The Dinosaur Museum News

In this case the muck is 140 million years old and belongs to a dinosaur from the Jurassic period. At a recent auction held by Bonhams the auctioneers, in New York, a coprolite was sold for almost £500 – twice the expected amount. A coprolite is dinosaur dung that has been fossilised into what is a hard rocky substance. Continue Reading…

New research published in the journal Science shows more clearly than ever the evolutionary link between birds and Tyrannosaurus rex. Bone structure and feather-like remains of dinosaurs have previously given strong indications of a link with modern birds. Now it would seem the two groups have been linked on a molecular level. Continue Reading…

Owing to refinements in the argon-argon dating method for fossils and rocks it is now possible to be more precise about the exact date of the dinosaur mass extinction. Scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, have been able to lessen the margin of error and bring this technique more in to line with other dating techniques. Continue Reading…

A new study by scientists at the University of Portsmouth has shown how Britain stood at the crossroads for dinosaur migration and linked the landmasses of North America and Eurasia before they finally split apart. Continue Reading…

The rare skeleton of the dinosaur Triceratops was sold today at Christies in Paris for 592,250 Euros to a private US collector.

The Dinosaur Museum in Dorchester made a desperate attempt to bring the dinosaur to the UK but was unable to raise sufficient funds. Continue Reading…

100 million year old amber discovered in France near the fossilised teeth of various dinosaurs has been found to contain seven feathers. The feathers either belong to a dinosaur or a very early bird. The teeth are from Troodontid and Dromaeosaurid types of dinosaur. Both of these were highly intelligent two-legged dinosaurs and are believed to have had feathers. Continue Reading…

A new study in the journal Biology Letters suggests that Pterosaurs, the flying relatives of dinosaurs, did not wait until they were adults before having sex. A team of scientists studied the bones from many individuals of the Pterodaustro species. They were looking in particular at the microscopic tree ring-like growth markings. Continue Reading…

The mountainous Gaurdak region of eastern Turkmenistan has offered up further finds of dinosaur footprints. About one hundred footprints, known as trace fossils, covering an area the size of a football field have been discovered by palaeontologists. Continue Reading…

Dorchester’s award winning Dinosaur Museum has received an offer from an anonymous backer to bid for a rare skeleton of Triceratops that is being auctioned by Christies in Paris on April 16th.

The rare skeleton is the property of a private collector in Europe and is the star attraction of a sale of dinosaur and other fossils at the auction in Paris. It is expected to fetch around 500,000 Euros but may go much higher as it has attracted worldwide attention. Continue Reading…

Are you ready for the best adventure ever?

When Jamie moves to Dinosaur Cove with his father he’s looking forward to doing some fossil hunting on the beach.  But when he and his friend, Tom, discover a forgotten cave with dinosaur footprints, it takes them to another world… a world of dinosaurs. Continue Reading…